Freewill

Freewill!

 

Freewill is, “For GOD so Loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whosoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life!” John 3:16 “…that if you believe in your heart and confess with your mouth, that JESUS CHRIST is LORD, you will be saved.” Romans 10:9

 

In today’s societies there is a lot of talk about free will or freedom of choice; what everybody understands about that is that they can do what they want, and nobody can make them do what they do not want to do. Freewill is all about me and what I choose to believe (true or not) and how I choose to live my life (good or evil – there is not neutral life).

 

Those who know GOD and know The Bible understand that all people are created by GOD in Adam (Eve was not created out of the earth but was separated out of Adam who was created male and female). That GOD forms every human conceived in their mother’s womb and calls and gifts them for His purposes (Will). Therefore every person is equal before GOD and should be before other humans.

 

As we grow, are taught and experience life we make decisions on how we are going to live our life. This is where freewill comes in, we either choose to obey GOD or disobey GOD, there is no neutral choice!

 

There are some who believe in predestination that is that every event of our live is predetermined and that our free will is to love GOD or hate GOD. This does not agree with The Bible that teaches us that everyone can be saved by believing in JESUS CHRIST. Predestination as The Bible teaches is that everyone who chooses can be saved because GOD calls us from our mother’s womb to be saved through JESUS CHRIST!

 

So what is freewill? It is the ability to love and serve GOD out of recognition that we are unable to live our life in a manner that pleases GOD or to live our life not caring about pleasing GOD.

 

We also know from The Bible that GOD chooses some people to show His power and glory through their disobedience: Esau the twin brother of Jacob, Pharaoh in the time of Moses, Judas who betrayed JESUS. Why we ask, that’s GOD’s business!

 

If everyone is born to be saved why do so many not believe and therefore go to hell (which was created for the devil and the fallen angels)? There is a clear teaching in the Bible that most forget, everyone will be judged according to how they lived, our lives are recorded in GOD’s books. Those who lived before CHRIST was born could not be saved by faith in Him or the promise of His birth and death as revealed throughout history. They had to wait until He came to hell to preach to them The Gospel!

 

Since CHRIST lived and died many thousands of people have lived their lives and never heard of JESUS so how are they saved? They are judged according to how they have lived their life as recorded in GOD’s books.

 

Another aspect of judgment is what JESUS said about The Lamb’s Book of Life. JESUS’ teaching about this are pretty much ignored because they do not support the most common teachings about predestination and once saved always saved. Once saved always saved in another teaching that is not supported by The Bible. JESUS talks about removing people’s names from the Lambs Book of Life!

 

Here is what I believe: when a person is conceived and GOD makes them a living spirit our eternal name is written in The Lamb’s Book of Life. At our death we are judged according to how we lived our life from GOD’s books. If by our life choices we have rejected GOD and His truths that are evident in all creation to all people then our name has been removed from The Lamb’s Book of Life.

 

Remember that JESUS told the 70 disciples when they returned from their training mission, not to rejoice in their new authority over demons but that their names were written in the Book of Life in Heaven! JESUS had not yet been murdered and shed His Blood to wash away our sins! He had not yet become sin for us (at which point He had defeated temptation and sin)! He had not yet taken our punishment for sin! He had not yet preached liberty to the captives and led them to freedom! He had not yet risen from the grave in new Life by the Power of The SPIRIT (at which point He had now defeated death and hell and taken the keys to their kingdoms)! He had not yet ascended to The Father’s Right Hand! The Father had not yet sent His SPIRIT to live in us! So how were their names written in the Book of Life. They were written in the Book of Life when they were conceived, just as every person’s name is, our eternal name that only GOD knows!

 

If you have issues with what I am teaching let me ask you: do you believe about The Bible what others teach or do you believe The Bible from what you have learned. You have not learned if you only believe what others (including myself) teach. If you do not read The Bible daily, do word and subject studies using Bible tools such as multiple versions, Bible dictionaries, concordances,  commentaries as well as other’s teachings; meditating on what you are reading and studying and asking GOD’s SPIRIT to teach you then you can easily be taught and believe a lie or half truth. That can be eternally fatal according to JESUS’ teachings.

 

Oswald Chambers said about 1 Corinthians 6:20, “For you were bought with a price; therefore glorify GOD in your body and in your spirit, which are GOD’s.” “Never consider whether you are of use; but always consider that you are not your own but His.”

 

Every human will be judged by GOD according to truth because GOD is Truth and there is no other source of truth. Whether we have ever heard of JESUS and The Bible or not we all are exposed to GOD through His creation and the truth about Him and us that it reveals.